JN PROJECTS, INC.

HELLOSIGN.COM TERMS OF USE

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Last Updated: February 22, 2017

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Welcome to the Web site of JN PROJECTS Inc., a Delaware corporation ("JN PROJECTS INC", "we," or "us"). Your use of this Web site (the "Site") and the services made available on the Site is subject to these Terms of Use (these "Terms"). HelloSign provides you on-demand electronic signature services, as updated from time to time, which includes online uploads, display, delivery, acknowledgment, electronic signature, and limited storage services for eContracts (the "Services"). By using any of our Services, you agree to be bound by, and use our Services in compliance with, these Terms of Use. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE, DO NOT USE OUR SERVICES.

We may make changes to these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "last updated" date given above. It is your responsibility to review these Terms frequently and to remain informed of any changes to them. The then-current version of these Terms will supersede all earlier versions. You agree that your continued use of our Services after such changes have been published to our Services will constitute your acceptance of such revised Terms.

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LICENSE TO USE OUR SERVICES

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Subject to these Terms, we and our licensors grant to you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use our Services for your personal use and not for resale or further distribution. Your right to use our Services is limited by all terms and conditions set forth in these Terms. Except for your pre-existing rights and this license granted to you, we and our licensors retain all right, title and interest in and to our Services, including all related intellectual property rights. Our Services and those of our licensors are protected by applicable intellectual property laws, including United States copyright law and international treaties. Except as otherwise explicitly provided in these Terms or as may be expressly permitted by applicable law, you will not, and will not permit or authorize any third party to: (i) reproduce, modify, translate, enhance, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or create derivative works of any of our Services; (ii) rent, lease or sublicense access to any of our Services; or (iii) circumvent or disable any security or technological features or measures of our Services. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by us.

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CANCELING YOUR ACCOUNT

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Your HelloSign Premium Account will continue in effect unless and until you cancel your Premium Account or we terminate it. You must cancel your Premium Account before it renews each month or year in order to avoid billing of the next month's or year's fees to your credit card. HelloSign will bill the monthly or yearly fees associated with your Premium Account to the credit card you provide to us during registration (or to a different credit card if you change your account information).

HelloSign Premium Accounts are prepaid and are non-refundable. HelloSign does not provide refunds or credits for any partial months or years. You may cancel your HelloSign Premium Account at anytime, and cancellation will be effective immediately but you will retain access to the features that came with your Premium Account through the remainder of the period already paid. If you wish to cancel your Premium Account you may do so via your "Account Settings > Billing" page. Should you elect to cancel your Premium Account, please note that you will not be issued a refund for the most recently (or any previously) charged monthly fees.

By signing up for a HelloSign Premium Account and providing HelloSign with your payment account information, you hereby agree to these payment terms and conditions.

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OWNERSHIP OF YOUR CONTENT

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You retain ownership of all intellectual property rights in any content submitted by you in the course of using the Services ("Content"). HelloSign does not claim ownership over any of your Content. These Terms do not grant us any licenses or rights to your Content except for the limited rights needed for us to provide the Services to you.

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ACCESS TO OUR SERVICES

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We do not provide you with the equipment to access our Services. You are responsible for all fees charged by third parties related to your access and use of our Services (e.g., charges by Internet service providers). We reserve the right to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, all or any portion of our Services without notice. We will not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of all or any portion of our Services. We also reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post, or remove any material that you post or submit for posting, and to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to our Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and without liability.

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AGREEING TO THE SERVICES

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To enable parties to rely upon the signed documents between them, you agree, in using our Services or submitting an eSigned document, to the means we use to secure electronic records and electronic signatures for the eDocument you signed through us. The provisions in this paragraph relate to Illinois's Electronic Commerce Security Act or any laws from Illinois or any other states requiring or permitting for the parties to agree to such procedures and the enforceability of the signatures.

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RESTRICTIONS

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You must comply with all applicable laws when using our Services. Other than viewing, signing, retrieving, or exercising other rights you may have to a eContract provided to you by another user through the Services, and except as may be expressly permitted by applicable law or as JN PROJECTS may authorize expressly in writing, you will not, and will not permit anyone else to: (i) store, copy, modify, distribute, or resell any of the information; audio, visual, and audiovisual works, or other content made available on our Services (collectively, "Service Content") or compile or collect any Service Content as part of a database or other work; (ii) use any automated tool (e.g., robots, spiders) to access or use our Services or to store, copy, modify, distribute, or resell any Service Content; (iii) rent, lease, or sublicense your access to our Services to another person; (iv) use any Services or Service Content for any purpose except for your own personal use; (v) circumvent or disable any digital rights management, usage rules, or other security features of our Services; (vi) use our Services in a manner that overburdens, or that threatens the integrity, performance, or availability of, our Services; or (vii) remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary notices (including copyright and trademark notices) on any portion of our Services or any Service Content. The Site and the Services may not be used: (i) in (or by a national or resident of) Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, or any other country with respect to which the United States maintains trade sanctions prohibiting the shipment of goods; or (ii) to anyone on or acting on behalf of an entity on the SDN List or the U.S. Commerce Department’s Denied Persons List or Entities List (together referred to as "U.S. Prohibited Party Lists"). By using the Site and the Service, you represent and warrant that you are not (a) located in or a national or resident of any country noted above that is subject to U.S. trade sanctions, or (b) on any U.S. Prohibited Party List or acting on behalf of any person or entity on any such list.

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PRIVACY POLICY

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We may collect registration and other information about you through our Services. Our collection and use of this information is governed by our Privacy Policy, available here.

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LINKING TO OUR SERVICES

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Framing of our Services within or as part of any third-party services, or any other manner of incorporating parts of our Services as part of another Web site or service, is not permitted without our prior written consent.

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RESTRICTED AREAS OF THE SERVICES

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Certain parts of our Services, including account management features, may be password-restricted to registered users or other authorized persons ("Password-Protected Areas"). If you are authorized to gain access to any Password-Protected Areas, you agree that you are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password, and agree to notify us if the password is lost, stolen, disclosed to an unauthorized third party, or otherwise may have been compromised. You agree that you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account, whether or not you are the individual who undertakes such activities. You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security in relation to your password or our Services that is known to you.

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USER POSTINGS TO OUR SERVICES

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You may have the opportunity to post information and content to our Services. You agree that we are free to use any comments, information, ideas, concepts, methods, techniques, content, and any other material in any post or submission that you may make to our Services, such as on our blog, (each, a "Submission"), without further compensation, acknowledgement, or payment, for any purpose whatsoever including, without limitation, modifying or improving the Services. Furthermore, by making any Submission on the Services, you grant us a perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, royalty-free, irrevocable, sublicensable, worldwide license and right to display, use, perform, reproduce, modify, distribute and create derivative works of the Submission in any media, software, or technology of any kind now existing or developed in the future, without any obligation to provide attribution or compensation to you or any third party. A Submission does not include any content you upload on your account in normal use of the Services, such as a contract you upload and send for signature.

BY POSTING OR PROVIDING ANY SUBMISSION, YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT PUBLIC POSTING AND USE OF YOUR SUBMISSION BY US WILL NOT INFRINGE UPON OR VIOLATE THE RIGHTS OF ANY THIRD PARTY.

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LINKS AND THIRD PARTY CONTENT

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Our Services may display, or contain links to, third party products, services, and Web sites. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information that constitutes part of the content expressed, authored, or made available by other users or other third parties on our Services, or which is accessible through or may be located using our Services (collectively, "Third Party Content") are those of the respective authors or producers and not of us or our shareholders, directors, officers, employees, agents, or representatives. We do not control Third Party Content and do not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Third Party Content. We are not responsible for the performance of, we do not endorse, and we are not responsible or liable for, any Third Party Content or any information or materials advertised in any Third Party Content. By using our Services, you may be exposed to content that is offensive, indecent, or objectionable. We are not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused to you by your use of or reliance on any goods, services, or information available on or through any third party service or Third Party Content. It is your responsibility to evaluate the information, opinion, advice, or other content available on and through our Services.

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USE POLICIES

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You are solely responsible for any Content and other material that you submit, publish, transmit, or display on, through, or with our Services.

You will not use our Services to: (i) upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit any Submission that contains unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; (ii) harm us or third parties in any way; (iii) impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; (iv) upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit any Submission that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements); (v) upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Submission that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other right of any party; (vi) upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other forms of solicitation; (vii) upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files, or programs designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; (viii) interfere with or disrupt the Services or servers or networks connected to the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Services; (ix) intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law or regulation; (x) "stalk" or otherwise harass another; or (xi) collect or store personal data about other users.

You will not share your password, (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account. We reserve the right to remove any Content from our Site and/or Services, and/or disclose Content or other information relating to your use of the Services (1) if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on us or this web site; (2) to protect and defend the rights or property of JN PROJECTS INC; or (3) to act in urgent circumstances to protect the security or safety of any users of the Services or Site, or the public.

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TRADEMARKS

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"HelloSign," the HelloSign logo, and any other product or service name or slogan displayed on our Services are trademarks of JN PROJECTS INC and its suppliers or licensors, and may not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of JN PROJECTS INC or the applicable trademark holder. You may not use any metatags or any other "hidden text" utilizing "HelloSign" or any other name, trademark or product or service name of JN PROJECTS INC without our prior written permission. In addition, the look and feel of our Services, including all page headers, custom graphics, button icons and scripts, is the service mark, trademark and/or trade dress of HelloSign and may not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without our prior written permission. All other trademarks, registered trademarks, product names and company names or logos mentioned in our Services are the property of their respective owners. Reference to any products, services, processes or other information, by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, supplier, or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation thereof by us.

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FEEDBACK

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We may provide you with a mechanism to provide feedback, suggestions, and ideas, if you choose, about our Services ("Feedback"). You agree that we may, in our sole discretion, use the Feedback you provide to us in any way, including in future enhancements and modifications to our Services. You hereby grant to us and our assigns a perpetual, worldwide, fully transferable, sublicensable, irrevocable, royalty free license to use, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, and display the Feedback in any manner for any purpose, in any media, software, or technology of any kind now existing or developed in the future, without any obligation to provide attribution or compensation to you or any third party.

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DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

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YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES AND THE SERVICE CONTENT IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SERVICES AND THE SERVICE CONTENT EACH ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE AND OUR SUPPLIERS AND LICENSORS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THE COMPREHENSIVENESS, CORRECTNESS, LEGALITY, OR ACCURACY OF THE SERVICE OR SERVICE CONTENT OR THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE.. ANY MATERIAL THAT YOU ACCESS OR OBTAIN THROUGH OUR SERVICES IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY MATERIAL THROUGH OUR SERVICES. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM US OR THROUGH OR FROM OUR SERVICES WILL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS.

Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by us.

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LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

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TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE AND OUR SUPPLIERS AND LICENSORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF THESE DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OF OUR SERVICES AND SERVICE CONTENT. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF US AND OUR SUPPLIERS AND LICENSORS OF ALL KINDS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES AND SERVICE CONTENT (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTY CLAIMS), REGARDLESS OF THE FORUM AND REGARDLESS OF WHETHER ANY ACTION OR CLAIM IS BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, EXCEED THE AMOUNTS, IF ANY, THAT YOU HAVE PAID TO US FOR YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES AND SERVICE CONTENT.

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INDEMNITY

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You will indemnify and hold us, our suppliers and licensors, and our respective subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, employees, representatives, and assigns harmless from any costs, damages, expenses, and liability caused by your use of the Services and Service Content, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any rights of a third party through use of the Services or Service Content.

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GENERAL

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Enforcement of these Terms will be governed by the laws of the State of California, excluding its conflict and choice of law principles. The exclusive jurisdiction and venue for any claims arising out of or related to these Terms or your use of the Services or Service Content will lie in the state and federal courts located in San Francisco, California, and each party irrevocably agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of such courts. Notwithstanding this, you agree that we will be allowed to apply for injunctive remedies (or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief) in any jurisdiction. Our failure to enforce any right or provision in these Terms will not constitute a waiver of such right or provision unless acknowledged and agreed to by us in writing. In the event that a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision of these Terms to be illegal, invalid, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect. These Terms constitutes the whole legal agreement between the parties in connection with your use of the Sites and Services, and governs such use. These Terms completely replace and supersede any prior agreements between the parties, whether written or oral, in connection with the Site and Services. Except as expressly provided in these Terms, any modification of or changes to these Terms must be in a writing duly authorized by an authorized representative of ours.

If you have any questions about our Services or these Terms, you may contact us at: support@hellosign.com.